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“How could this have happened?”The four ethereal creatures encircled their game board—an enormous bowl-like structure—and watched the aftermath unfold within the image pool. Though there was no longer...

The tower, which was not supposed to be there, plunges into the earth in a place just before the black pine forest begins to give way to swamp and then the reeds and wind-gnarled trees of the marsh fl...

He’d been created for one purpose—death. He was not there to comfort or to enlighten.Keenan’s only job was to bring death to those unlucky enough to know his touch.And on the cold, windy New Orleans n...

Azrael, once the most powerful Angel of Death to grace the golden floors of heaven, hunched his shoulders against the sharp wind that blew off the Mississippi River and funneled into the twisting stre...

Death could be kind or he could be cruel. Tonight, he felt damn cruel.Sammael’s dark wings flapped behind him as he watched his prey. The stench of blood and sweat clung to the men. They’d fought hard...

Padre Garcia Luiz Batista was struggling with his hoe, tilling weeds from the mission’s garden, when the stranger stumbled from the jungle. The figure wore a tattered pair of black denim pants and not...

The two boys stood outside the lion’s cage.“I don’t want to go inside,” the smaller one said. He kept close to his older brother and clasped tightly to his hand.The two were bundled in jackets too lar...

Karina Tucker took a deep breath. “Jacob, do not hit Emily again. Emily, let go of his hair. Don’t make me stop this car!”Her daughter’s face swung into the rearview mirror, outraged as only a six-yea...

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, the bi-century Harpy Games ended with more participants dead than alive, and every single one of the survivors knew fourteen-year-old Kaia Skyhawk was to blame.The day began i...

STRIDER, KEEPER OF THE DEMON of Defeat, burst through the towering front doors of the Budapest fortress he shared with a growing cast of friends—brothers and sisters by circumstance rather than blood,...

Reyes, once an immortal warrior for the gods, now possessed by the demon of Pain and living in Budapest, entered his bedroom. He was drenched in sweat and panting from the force of his workout. Becaus...

REYES STOOD on the roof of his Budapest fortress, five stories up, his feet balanced precariously on the highest ledge. Above him, moonlight seeped red and yellow from the sky, blood mixed with fickle...

“THEY DON’T SEEM TO CARE that they’re dying.”Aeron, an immortal warrior possessed by the demon of Wrath, was perched atop the roof of the Bübájos Apartments in central Budapest, peering down at the hu...

Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he’d have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.He ran his tongue over hi...

GIDEON STARED down at the woman sleeping atop the bed of cloud-soft cerulean cotton.Inky hair tangled around an innately sensual face, long lashes casting shadows over graceful cheeks. One of her hand...